Friday, June 30, 2023

My Favorite Piano Recordings


I love jazz and rock piano but none here as my personal middle finger to all my music loving friends who ignore classical music.
Ahem: My favorite piano recordings (chronological order, not preference, containing two harpsichord exceptions):
Igor Kipnis plays Bach Goldberg Variations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhxjqGsyFR4
Leon Fleisher plays Bach Chaconne arr. Brahms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CbAmyCca0c
Gustav Leonhardt plays BWV 1004 (same piece Bach arranged himself for harpsichord) https://youtu.be/B8XFLDlhZQg?t=588
Lili Kraus plays Mozart's Complete Piano Concertos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvRhkZLM__E
Menahem Presler plays Mozart Piano Concerto no. 23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Tk3sliZ0U
Ivan Moravec plays Mozart C-Minor Sonata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6hCoWG0KUc
Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 1
Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven Piano Concerto no. 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjIfzu82HU0
Friedrich Gulda plays Beethoven Hammerklavier Sonata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf9eZdeS8es
Sviatoslav Richter plays Beethoven Sonata no. 32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjE1yst49rU
Sviatoslav Richter plays Schubert Sonata D. 784 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAxuFcFSw_g
Radu Lupu plays Schubert Sonata D. 894 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUXcEYaLvw0
Alfred Brendel plays Schubert Sonata D. 959
Clifford Curzon plays Schubert Sonata D. 960
Sviatoslav Richter plays Schumann Toccata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waS2A8en7ps
Radu Lupu plays Schumann Fantasie https://youtu.be/0j41RKL4DmU?t=2496
Josef Hofmann plays his Casimir Hall Recital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgsLAQLc6Nk
Mieczyslaw Horoszowski plays Chopin Preludes https://youtu.be/XS0Yzbo99ws?t=819
Alkan Etudes (whoever can play them) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNcgAJLHf7A
Rosalyn Tureck plays Brahms Handel Variations
Friedrich Gulda and Joe Zawinul play Brahms Haydn Variations
Arthur Rubinstein plays Brahms Piano Concerto no. 2
Germaine Thuyssens-Valentine plays Complete Faure Piano Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSbHWHel9Y
Rudolf Firkusny plays Pictures at an Exhibition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIizIOyisHc
Alicia de Larrocha plays complete Piano Music of Isaac Albeniz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_0u7AzMItM
Pietro Scarpini plays Busoni's Piano Concerto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1AgOvleAmY
Marguerite Long plays Ravel's Piano Concerto in G https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUWsBjt8xJI
Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Winds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyRX_bq3Tds
George Antheil Airplane Sonata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4on2sedCNg
Steffen Schleiermacher plays Henry Cowell Piano Music
Andras Schiff plays Bartok Piano Concerto no. 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7J7L53b8U0
Ivan Wyschnegradsky's 24 Quarter Tone Piano Etudes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiZ5EwSqAd8
Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Messiaen's Exotic Birds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmjETPAkF70
Pierre Laurent Aimard plays Ligeti Complete Etudes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyRrIkzrM8
The First Complete Recording of Kurtag's Jatekok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4oaXUdU6kE...
Rodion Shchedrin 24 Preludes and Fugues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0KH-wDfTlc
Nikolai Kapustin 24 Preludes in Jazz Styles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbxKRE7nxWk
Nikolai Kapustin Eight Concert Etudes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=116QHk9jNGI

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